tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post3534168037631536874..comments2024-03-27T19:04:14.544-05:00Comments on The Absorbascon: The Man Who Replaced Batman (Part 5): The Vector of the GunScipiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217376618860561999noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-40272129370637018222021-03-19T12:07:45.632-05:002021-03-19T12:07:45.632-05:00"I like this blog a lot.
Can you recommend ot..."I like this blog a lot.<br />Can you recommend others?<br />I want to read more."<br /><br />I can't; that's why I started to write this one.<br />But I can recommend removing one syllable from the first line of your haiku.Scipiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12112155718721908876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-9607258409754307302021-03-19T12:05:51.417-05:002021-03-19T12:05:51.417-05:00"this rather banal foppish criminal".
No..."this rather banal foppish criminal".<br />No; because this is the REAL Deadshot. The one who, after the costume change you mentioned and years of practice and stewing, got his ass kicked by Batman in a few panels, atop a giant typewriter while Silver St. Cloud looked on.Scipiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12112155718721908876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-2903768569228634152021-02-22T15:35:11.975-05:002021-02-22T15:35:11.975-05:00For another example of Batman Fears *sob* Replacem...For another example of Batman Fears *sob* Replacement: Holy Musical Batman, the unauthorized musical<br />https://youtu.be/hmZhMeY5L44Yes!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-80083084507312188822021-02-16T17:15:25.256-05:002021-02-16T17:15:25.256-05:00@cybrid I would love to see Will Smith bring this ...@cybrid I would love to see Will Smith bring this version of Deadshot to life . . . :)Marcoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00170588816722651862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-5826721195349119372021-01-27T13:19:46.392-05:002021-01-27T13:19:46.392-05:00I like this blog a lot.
Can you recommend others?
...I like this blog a lot.<br />Can you recommend others?<br />I want to read more.Dochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00386741684689531690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-77919208356341162092021-01-06T14:19:37.302-05:002021-01-06T14:19:37.302-05:00No commentary on how this rather banal foppish cri...No commentary on how this rather banal foppish criminal came to be re-invented as, ultimately, a cold-blooded psychopath who shoots bullets from his wrists, whose "mask" consists of a smooth silver surface with a single targeting sight in place of an eye, who ended up going on assignments in other countries and on other planets, who was given a backstory straight out of Southern Gothic 101, in which he was urged by his mother to kill his father only to kill his brother instead? I was kind of looking forward to that. Oh well. ;-)<br />cybridhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08788036470551505985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-80622812676482451872020-12-27T16:15:34.189-05:002020-12-27T16:15:34.189-05:00Really! In this crowd? Know thine audience, Scipio...Really! In this crowd? Know thine audience, Scipio! :)Marcoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00170588816722651862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-57095195036446354652020-12-12T17:18:28.612-05:002020-12-12T17:18:28.612-05:00"Vector of the Gun"
I didn't actuall..."Vector of the Gun"<br />I didn't actually expect anyone to get that.Scipiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12112155718721908876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-75654770424643346042020-12-12T07:19:22.967-05:002020-12-12T07:19:22.967-05:00Very much appreciate the work you put into the sub...Very much appreciate the work you put into the subtitles of each section. Didn't know where you were going with "Vector of the Gun", but it was apt. It even holds up to the extent that Kirk and the boys were in a similar jam, where they knew gunmen were going to shoot them and there wasn't anything they could do about it.<br /><br />Also appreciate the Odysseus comparison; I've been saying for some time that Batman and Odysseus are essentially the same character (suffering noble versed in every manly art and clever enough to take on any man or monster). I'm glad someone else sees it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-31817328213450710482020-12-11T16:46:51.175-05:002020-12-11T16:46:51.175-05:00So the running battle between Batman and Deadshot ...So the running battle between Batman and Deadshot starts in a bait shack on a wharf, behind which we can see a bridge in silhouette. The bridge looks to ba at least about a half-mile or so away. Batman flees the bait shack and runs to the bridge, with Deadshot in hot pursuit, missing every shot? Just by sheer luck, even with the "altered sights," one of the bullets should have connected. <br /><br />Also, I think this is another time dilation like the skull and crossbones shootin' gallery. Deadshot would have needed to reload several times during this pursuit. I suppose the bridge behind the bait shack could have been another bridge and there was one closer to the bait shack (this is Gotham and there are probably 50 bridges, many of which lead nowhere), but no, you shouldn't show Chekov's Bridge unless you're planning to use it. Bryan Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04358102127982954750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-27302874693200429752020-12-11T15:30:46.751-05:002020-12-11T15:30:46.751-05:00I love that we never actually see Deadshot look do...I love that we never actually see Deadshot look down the sight, so there's no real reason for Batman to think that twisting a piece of metal would actually affect the story. But you know, it really is the only way to solve the problem. Because if Batman doesn't discredit him here, he'll just grift his way into a licensed vigilante position for the secret puffin society, and tekili-li, tekili-loo, he'll be crimelord, there, and looking to expand his turf to Patagonia.<br /><br />That all said, DC definitely needs to get on publishing stories on the alternate Earth where Batman just snarks his opponents until their fear vibrates their molecules out of deception.John Chttps://john.colagioia.net/noreply@blogger.com